Google knew what it was doing when it made and marketed Android as an “open” system. It surely anticipated forks by handset makers as a manageable risk as long as Google kept advancing the system. But I wonder if it expected something like Facebook Home: an inside-out heist, made by a company after the same exact user data and advertisers Google is after.
A phone using Google AND Facebook technology? A privacy dream come true!
Kontra responds to Facebook To Reveal “Home On Android” Sources Say Is A Modified OS On HTC At 4/4 Event story:
“A phone using Google AND Facebook technology? A privacy dream come true!”
— Kontra (@counternotions) March 29, 2013
Google supposedly built the “OPEN” Android ecosystem to counter iOS’ rise and now they’ve given rise to a monster that threatens to bite the hand that is feeding it. Do i feel sorry for Google? Hell, No.
P.S. Some of Google’s apps on iOS are massively popular and they are prolific revenue generators for the company. Isn’t that a bit ironic?
A year ago this month, Schmidt dropped two whoppers on us, saying that developers would ship first for Android and that most televisions would include Google TV by mid-2012. Much like the Mayan apocalypse, we’re still waiting for those to come to fruition.
The only ones associated with Android who make any real money is Samsung and, ironically, Microsoft.
Read Quote of Robert Scoble’s answer to Technology: Why is everyone so obsessed with the Apple iPhone when it is clearly inferior technology-wise to other competitors such as the Samsung Galaxy SIII? on Quora
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Jon Brodkin of Ars Technica on Why Google arm-twisted Acer:
In a statement sent to Ars tonight, Google said that Acer signed away its rights to make Android-like phones not blessed by Google when it joined the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium designed to promote Android and create “greater openness in the mobile ecosystem.”
And MG Siegler Calls spade a spade:
Man, the Open Handset Alliance is so open. Minus the open part.
— MG Siegler (@parislemon) September 15, 2012
I’m fine with Google/Acer stuff. It fully exposes the “open” garbage. Now we can all see the bullshit dripping from their mouths.
— MG Siegler (@parislemon) September 15, 2012
Google is giving a whole new meaning to the word “Open”.
Update:
Further Reading:
Google just dropped an Android-shaped bomb in China [Updated]
Androiders are also the ones that are constantly yelling that the patent system is broken because Apple is allowed to patent everything under the sun. Really now – then why is it that Samsung was the number two patent filer in the world in 2011 while Apple ranked thirty-ninth? Isn’t Samsung trying to protect their ideas like Apple is? Of course they are and that’s why I call the core die-hard Android fans the Tea Partiers of the tech industry. Facts just don’t seem to matter. It’s really all about senseless anger and wacky arguments: The louder, the better!
Source: patentlyapple.com
Also noteworthy is that almost all the value from the Android ecosystem is concentrated in Samsung. I did not include Google in this analysis since its mobile is so small as to be not visible in its accounting. A separate analysis of Android economics shows that Google’s benefit from the platform is modest. In contrast, Samsung, and Samsung alone, is benefitting greatly. It could even be said that today Samsung is the only Android profit engine.
Samsung has the most to lose when Google decides to ditch the modular approach. It is not a matter of if Google plans to do hardware, it is just a question of when. That is one thing that would keep me awake at night if i was Samsung’s CEO. Samsung’s biggest worry is Google itself.
Android fanboys will disagree with me but Google hasn’t shied away from making bold moves in the hardware space. Take Nexus 7 for example, It is basically sold at cost and it has essentially killed all the other Android tablets on the market.
The Wall Street Journal chronicles Apple’s souring relationship with Google and how Apple plans to oust Google Maps from the iPhone.
Apple has been hatching the plan to evict Google Maps from the iPhone for years, according to current and former Apple employees. The plan accelerated as smartphones powered by Google’s Android software overtook the iPhone in shipments.
I’m really wary of Apple forging a close relationship with a company like Facebook. Apple has been royally betrayed by a Partner (Google) in the past and Facebook is more than capable of pulling a fast one on Apple.
iPhone is the only phone on the market that has admirably withstood the attack of the Android army. I believe Google’s sole aim when they released Android 1.0 in Sep, 2008 was to destroy the iPhone. I’m really happy to see Apple’s recent moves to reduce their dependence on an unreliable partner like Google. We will see where Apple is heading after next week’s WWDC (June 11-15, 2012).
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